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One of the president's men who read it, is afraid that if it ever got out, the president could be smeared. So, he advises the president to tell the director to drop it, which he does. But later the professor and the girl were out and he was drunk and when he refused to give her the keys she stepped out of the car. When he started it, it blew up. She then discovers that her place has been burglarized and what was taken were her computer and her disks. Obviously, her brief has someone agitated. She then turns to her boyfriend's friend at the FBI, he agrees to come meet her but before he does someone shoots him and takes his place...

Written by rcs0411@yahoo.com See All (175) » Taglines: From the author of "The Firm" and "The Client" and the director of "Presumed Innocent" and "All The President's Men." See more » Genres: Rated PG-13 for momentary language and some violence | See all certifications » Parents Guide: 17 December 1993 (USA) See more » Also Known As: El informe Pelícano See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia The Region 1 and Region 4 DVD release was a flip sided disc that contained the movie split into two parts. You had to eject the disc and turn it over to continue watching. When the Blu-ray disc was released on February 10th, 2009 it was the first time since its VHS release that somebody could watch the movie straight through without stopping it. See more » Goofs Gavin Verheek tells Darby by phone that he is staying at the Westin, by the river. Darby later tells him to take the trolley to a place called the Riverwalk. In reality, the Westin was approximately 1 block from the Riverwalk.

The nearest stop to the Westin where Gavin could have caught the riverside trolley (streetcar) was at the Riverwalk. See more » Quotes Justice Rosenberg : What do they say? Gray Grantham : The usual: Death to Rosenberg, Retire Rosenberg, Cut off the oxygen. Justice Rosenberg : [laughs] That's my favorite. Of course you, Mr Grantham, did pretty good by me your last time out: Rosenberg equals the government over business, the individual over government, the environment over everything. And the Indians? Oh, give 'em whatever they want. Gray Grantham : Well with all due respects sir, that wasn't my line, that was a quote. Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp. By Arrangement with Warner Special Products It's all been seen before 11 April 2009 | by Mr_PCM (Sheffield, England) – See all my reviews The 1993 film with Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington still in the formation years of their careers  so this is certainly if nothing else a curiosity piece seeing how these megastar A-listers performed before they truly reached the top.

John Grisham novels will generally make for a reasonably solid if unspectacular film, with just sufficient meat for serious actors to get their teeth into, and the Pelican Brief is no exception to this rule. When two senior judges are murdered, twenty-four year old law student Darby Shaw (Roberts) looks into the case and her suspicions somehow make their way to the FBI  suspicions that prove potentially damaging to the US government. Now she and journalist Gray Grantham (Washington) must try to stay alive long enough to ensure what they have uncovered is told to the world. Few do distress-turned-determination better than Julia Roberts, but after a slow start followed by a great deal of panicked running and hiding, interest wanes somewhat. Meanwhile Denzel Washington is given so little to do in the first hour to the point he is almost forgotten. Further, it takes so long for us to actually discover what was written in the eponymous brief and for the leads to meet and agree to take action, that the audience's desire to get to the bottom of the 'mystery' is definitely lessened.

However, once the two do start working together in the latter half interest does pick up, but not enough to retrieve the film from its ponderous start. Roberts and Washington do the job required of them but seem to treat it as little more than a day at the office  there is very little of the energy we have come to expect from Roberts, or Washington in particular. The secondary roles are filled slightly better  John Lithgow in particular a standout newspaper editor, and watch out for a very young Cynthia Nixon (Miranda from Sex in the City) as Julia Roberts' student friend. However, Stanley Tucci as one of a number of shadowy government figures on the tail of the leads should have stuck to the shadows more. There is little of the slickness, the grit and pace characteristic of later John Grisham adaptations such as Runaway Jury. Legal thrillers about corrupt government prepared to kill to save their own position have been done so often (and so often much better) that little feels fresh about this Grisham adaptation, to the extent that were it not for the presence of A-listers Roberts and Washington this film would have long been forgotten.

As it is, the film does not have enough thrills to save it from the fate of the DVD bargain basement bin. If you wanted to see this, it would probably be cheaper to buy than rent this film  and it would make a nice coaster! OK for a throwaway (literally) Saturday night film, but not memorable in any way. It's all been seen and done before. 12 of 18 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes MOVIE REVIEW : The Firm of Julia, Denzel, Grisham & Pakula : 'The Pelican Brief' is based on a hot novel, has bankable stars and a director noted for his work with thrillers. The case has been made and the verdict is . . . - latimes YOU ARE HERE: LAT Home → Collections MOVIE REVIEW : The Firm of Julia, Denzel, Grisham & Pakula : 'The Pelican Brief' is based on a hot novel, has bankable stars and a director noted for his work with thrillers. The case has been made and the verdict is . . .

December 17, 1993 |KENNETH TURAN | TIMES FILM CRITIC If "The Pelican Brief" (citywide) had any more going for it, it would be against the law. So it is a surprise to say that the biggest mystery this legal thriller presents is how a film based on a novel by John Grisham, starring the bankable duo of Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington and written and directed by veteran Alan J. Pakula can end up more of a fizzle than an explosion. "The Pelican Brief" does have its moments, sporadically involving episodes when it looks like things are finally going to ignite. But that combustion point is never quite reached, and despite occasional bursts of action, this doesn't manage to be more than a reasonable facsimile of a thriller, acceptable in a pinch but nothing to get very excited about.

This year has already seen a much more successful version of an earlier Grisham novel, the Sydney Pollack-directed, Tom Cruise-starring "The Firm." Aside from a penchant for all-star casts, both movies benefit from one of Grisham's enjoyably harum-scarum plots, outlandish yet just plausible enough to be diverting. The story this time around centers on the Supreme Court, whose oldest justice, the liberal Abraham Rosenberg (a clever cameo by Hume Cronyn) is the target of anger from all across the political spectrum. So while no one is surprised when he comes to a sudden end, the fact that another justice of a different political stripe is simultaneously murdered is the cause of considerable speculation. Among the interested parties is humble but smart Tulane University law student Darby Shaw (Roberts).

Working on the premise that it might be greed, not ideology, that led to the deaths, she puts together a paper on the possible causes, which, for reasons that will eventually become clear, she calls "The Pelican Brief." Shaw's professor/boyfriend Tom Callahan (Sam Shepard) thinks enough of Darby's brief to pass it on to old pal Gavin Verheek (John Heard), who just happens to be a top lawyer for the FBI. In this time of conspiracy theories and contagious paranoia, it will unnerve no one to find out that once the government, up to and including the President (Robert Culp) and his ominous chief of staff (Tony Goldwyn), get involved, Darby's life is at risk. Finally, the only person she can trust is Gray Grantham (Washington), the best reporter the nation's capital can call its own. Set up this way, "The Pelican Brief" probably doesn't sound half bad. But a simple description leaves out several factors that work to the film's detriment, starting with the nature of its view of official Washington.

For once the word gets out on Darby's brief, entities almost without number get involved, ranging from all the President's men to the FBI, the CIA and several clandestine intelligence organizations. So while everyone is looking for Darby, it is far from clear who anyone is or what their intentions are at any given time. In fact spies are spying on spies to such a baffling extent you'll want to construct a chart to figure out what's going on, and a darkened theater is not the best place to make one. Not helping things either is that, unlike "The Firm," "The Pelican Brief" doesn't benefit from the strength of its supporting performers. With the exception of John Lithgow's steely editor, almost none of the peripheral players and especially none of the innumerable government men make much of an impression. Roberts and Washington do what is expected of them quite nicely and manage a pleasant on-screen rapport, but no one is giving them much assistance.

The person who should be helping most, director-screenwriter-co-producer Pakula, who has thrillers ranging from "Klute" and "The Parallax View" to the more recent "Presumed Innocent" and "Consenting Adults" behind him, is a considerable letdown on this one. Aside from not being able to keep the plot from becoming periodically murky, Pakula sets a leisurely, almost phlegmatic pace for this film. The material is treated with more reverence than energy, and in a year when splendid thrillers like "The Fugitive" and "In the Line of Fire" can be held up as examples, that is simply not good enough. 'The Pelican Brief' The Pelican Brief : Watch online now with Amazon Instant Video: Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard, Stanley Tucci, William Atherton, Hume Cronyn, Robert Culp, John Heard, John Lithgow, James B. Sikking, Tony Goldwyn, Alan J. Pakula, Pieter Jan Brugge: Amazon.co.uk By Rich Milligan on 14 Aug.

2005 Format: DVD I'm a big fan of John Grisham's books and the film adaptations of the books usually make for excellent viewing also. It's many a year though since I've read "The Pelican Brief" so when I sat down to watch the film I was unsure as to how confident I could be that the film was true to the book. It was surprising to find out after watching the film though, that the film rights were actually sold before the book was written, and Grisham himself wrote the part of Darby Shaw with Julia Roberts in mind, so you would image that the film should be a near perfect adaptation of the book. The plot in many respects is extremely simple; two Supreme Court judges have been assassinated in what seems to be unrelated attacks. Legal student Darby Shaw with no other though than to investigate the deaths as a mental exercise in research, puts together a plausible explanation of why they judges have been killed, a theory which implicates both the White House and the FBI. Darby's partner Thomas Callahan (Sam Shepherd) shows the report to a friend in the FBI, who in turn shows it to the head of the FBI, who in turn shows it to the President.

Unfortunately for Darby it would seem that her theory is somewhere too near to the truth for both the President and the FBI as a succession of various hit men and thugs are now trying to make Darby's brief and Darby herself disappear. Solace comes in the form of Washington Post journalist Gray Grantham (Denzil Washington) who comes to Darby's aid as they both try to uncover the truth and print the real version of events. Amongst the various chases and thrills and spills it does become more than a little confusing as to who is chasing who and who is exactly on Darby's side. Read more › Super Reviewer ½ Made somewhere around the start of the mid-90's legal thriller craze (and most of those films were from John Grisham novels) The Pelican Brief is a film about a young law student's theory about the assassinations of two Supreme Court justices...and it just happens to actually be true. The paper reaches the president through a chain starting with her law professor - who she's also sleeping with - and uncovers a conspiracy involving the chief executive. Thus, the government does anything and everything to kill her, including murdering everyone she comes in contact with.

Also coming into play in this is Denzel Washington, a Washington newspaper reporter who agrees to meet with her and becomes involved, no doubt because of the incredible attention and readership it would bring to him. The acting is superb, shifting from drama to action film almost effortlessly. I don't normally go for legal thrillers all that much, but this one is an exception to the rule. Derek Daniels Super Reviewer A very good political conspiracy thriller with an outstanding cast. Based on the John Grisham novel. This is a entertaining film with a deep plot, it can be a little slow at times and light on action but overall an enjoyable well made film. Dean King Super Reviewer ½ Based on John Grisham's best-selling novel. Darby Shaw (Julia Roberts) is a law student at Tulane who writes her own theory about who arranged for the assassination of two Supreme Court justices and why. The unfortunate thing is, her theory is right on the money, and once it starts circulating it results in a number of deaths. Investigative reporter Gray Grantham (Denzel Washington) turns out to be the one person she can trust and rely on.

"The Pelican Brief" is a solid and entertaining (if lengthy) political / newspaper / legal thriller from the director of "All The President's Men". It keeps its grip thanks to genuinely good film-making and an excellent cast. The climax is reasonably suspenseful. To screenwriter / director Alan J. Pakula's credit, the villain of the movie - a stereotypically greedy and maniacal tycoon - is deliberately made mysterious and gets no actual screen time - except for an appearance in a key photograph. I've seen a couple of the big-screen Grisham adaptations, and they have all been pretty good. His novels do make for good movie material. I can't decide which one is the best, though...that's kind of tough. Hmmm I tooke ?A time to kill? and ?The Pelican brief? Cassandra Maples Classic interview: Julia Roberts | Film | The Guardian The Observer Classic interview: Julia Roberts In 1994, the star of Pretty Woman was preparing for the release of four new films.

The 26-year-old told Timothy Egan about life as a newlywed and the pressures of being the world's highest-paid actress 'I am a girl, like anybody else' … Julia Roberts (circa 1994). Photograph: Kip Rano/Rex Features Timothy Egan Share on Messenger Close Between wild fires, earthquakes, race riots and a debilitating recession, the city of illusion has been looking a little sad of late. So there is a palpable cheer around Hollywood now that the highest-paid actress in the world is back in town, generating economic activity. Two years after she made her last film and fell into a tabloid twilight zone over her personal life, Julia Roberts is starring in four new productions, the first being Alan J Pakula's adaptation of John Grisham's legal thriller The Pelican Brief, opening on Friday week. At present, she is somewhere in the fortress of International Creative Management, where her agents are giving her last-minute tips on what not to say to a reporter.

Which is a bit incongruous, because she has spent the last six weeks learning how to ask questions like a reporter, in the role she is now filming as a journalist in I Love Trouble A wall in the office of the ICM agent Elaine Goldsmith slides open and there is Roberts, in cut-off jeans, moccasins and a kind of ponytail, and all of 26 years old. Her agents disappear, and for the next two-and-a-half hours she talks about life as a media caricature and as a new bride to the singer Lyle Lovett. It was Pretty Woman , which took more than $400m worldwide, that made Julia Roberts a global star, one of only a handful who can make or break studio heads. She is now receiving more than $8m a film, the sort of price that comes with the status of being able to "open" a movie, which means that, no matter how bad it is, enough people will buy tickets in the first few days of its release to cover its costs. The downside is that she exists at a level where garage attendants are supposed to care about the tiniest details of her personal life.

In that sense, she is both a victim of all the hyper-press that reached a frenzy when she cancelled her wedding to the actor Kiefer Sutherland two years ago and a beneficiary. "They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts it into people's minds that women can do it," she says. "It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just guys." She is less comfortable with the public-property aspect of her status. "People talk about this Julia Roberts almost like it's a cup of Pepsi. People think Julia Roberts is something they created. The fact is, 26 years ago, there was this scrunched-up little pink baby named Julia Roberts. I am a girl," she says, "like anybody else." Her father, who died when she was 10, was a vacuum cleaner salesman; her mother a church secretary. At home, they staged and acted in plays, imbuing the three Roberts children with a love of entertaining. Julia was only a few years out of high school in Smyrna, Georgia, when the modest 1988 film Mystic Pizza made her a celebrity of the promising variety. It took some getting used to.

"I was in the bathroom somewhere, and this girl followed me and said: 'Excuse me, girl in stall No 1.' I said: 'Yeaaah?' She said: 'You were in Mystic Pizza.' 'I said: 'Yeah?' She said: 'Can I have your autograph?' I said: 'I'm a little tied up right now.'" For her next film, Steel Magnolias (1989), Roberts received an Academy Award nomination. (The director of that movie, Herbert Ross, has since criticised her work as one-dimensional, suggesting she should take formal acting lessons.) Another Oscar nomination came with Pretty Woman, the fairytale story of a Hollywood hooker who spends the weekend with Richard Gere. It was followed by Sleeping With the Enemy (1991), where she is brutalised by an obsessive husband. Then came Dying Young, a disappointment, and Hook (both 1991), which was widely dismissed as a mess, though the director, Steven Spielberg, was blamed.

That year Roberts went through what her agent describes as a "Fellini summer", in which she was variously reported to have had a nervous breakdown, been on drugs and romanced several men, all the while feuding with Spielberg on the set of Hook. None of it, says Roberts, was true. She played Tinkerbell, but some of the gossip columnists referred to her as "Tinkerhell". Now, with a cushion of rest between her and that period, she says she is not at all bitter or angry. "What people perceive that summer to be is for me a tale of fiction spun way out of control," she says. Yes, she was going to marry Kiefer Sutherland on the Fox Studio lot and three days before the wedding called it off. From then on, her every footstep was monitored, analysed, speculated upon. The past two years "have been two of the most incredible years of my life". She travelled extensively, read more books than screenplays, nurtured old friendships and, six months ago, married Lovett, 36, a Texas crooner with an original haircut which has made him the butt of jokes comparing him to Woody Woodpecker.

"We're pretending to be a normal couple," says Roberts. "We get up in the morning and go to our jobs. He goes to the studio to cut a record; I go to the studio to make a movie." They consider New York home. "We can be walking down Sixth Avenue in the morning and people will come by and say, 'Hey, congratulations!' But then there are people who talk about my wedding dress looking like a tablecloth, too." Her role model in the celebrity game is another New Yorker, Jacqueline Onassis. "How this woman has kept her composure, with what the tabloid shows have done to John F Kennedy, is unbelievable," she says. "This woman is nobility personified." By contrast, Julia Roberts has to fight her own sense of defiance and outrage. "I've become very irate watching the news. It's gotten so bad here in LA. The other night, they kept running these blurbs: 'Tonight, at 11, Kiefer Sutherland responds to Pretty Woman's talk with Barbara Walters.' They were setting this up to such a point I started to get nervous.

And, of course, it was just a clip from Kiefer's press junket for The Three Musketeers, him commenting on the publicity." In Pakula's The Pelican Brief, she works with Denzel Washington. He plays a heroic investigative reporter who follows up her character's theory about the assassination of supreme court judges. She plays Darby Shaw, a law student and the girlfriend of an alcoholic professor. In the book, John Grisham introduced Darby's character thus: "For two brutal years, one of the few pleasures of law school had been to watch as she graced the halls and rooms with her long legs and baggy sweaters. There was a fabulous body in there somewhere, they could tell. But she was not one to flaunt it." Nor does Pakula flaunt it. The Pelican Brief makes only minimal use of the physical attributes of its star. Instead, the movie follows a tangled plot, bound by a long, conspiratorial rope. Filming in New Orleans and Washington last summer was as close to a perfect experience as Julia Roberts has had in showbusiness. It "was a dream", she says.

"You feel justified in holding out for something that pays off." Pakula, who has directed such stars as Warren Beatty, Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, says he found Roberts very easy to work with. "She gave everything. By the end, she had earned the respect of the entire crew. Julia responds to the other actors, which is what the best people do." Roberts is midway through filming I Love Trouble. In it, she trades one-liners with an older journalist, played by Nick Nolte. Like other actresses who have starred opposite Nolte, she has had to get used to his sometimes crude behaviour. While he can be "completely charming and very nice, he's also completely disgusting. He's going to hate me for saying this, but he seems to go out of his way to repel people." Still, the director, Charles Shyer, is impressed with Roberts. "We were looking at film the other day and our editor said: 'She's got it,'" he says. "I think Julia would have been a movie star in any era.

There is a magic there with her.'" A third new film, Mary Reilly, a period movie based on Valerie Martin's novel about a maidservant in the household of Dr Jekyll, is scheduled for production this spring. Such projects should silence Roberts's critics who argue that her range is restricted to playing victims in mainstream films. Roberts has been somewhat typecast by Pretty Woman; a character who is most appealing when her hair is big and her laugh is deep. Such pigeonholing doesn't bother her. "I started out being Julia, Eric Roberts's sister, then I was Julia Mystic Pizza Roberts. So getting saddled with Pretty Woman was not the worst moment of my life." Nor is she upset by those feminists who say she glorified prostitution in the film. "What are you going to do? You can't please everybody. That movie was a fairytale. We did everything but put a glass slipper on.

And I'll tell you something else: for $3,000 a weekend, Richard Gere got a bargain." • This is an edited version of an interview published in The Observer in February 1994 A Time to Film: John Grisham on the Big Screen - Signature Reads A Time to Film: John Grisham on the Big Screen November 11, 2010 SHARE Has it really been 17 years since the movie version of "The Firm" was released? Tom Cruise a mere thirtysomething? Pre-Oprah couch jumping ?

So many of today’s biggest stars made early box office booms in movies from John Grisham’s biggest bestsellers — Julia Roberts in "The Pelican Brief," Matt Damon in "The Rainmaker," Matthew McConaughey in "A Time to Kill," and, of course, unforgettably, Tom Cruise in "The Firm." No word just yet on John Grisham’s newest novel, The Confession , being made into a movie and what young Hollywood up-and-comer will have his or her shot at joining those ranks, but while you’re waiting, here’s the complete list of John Grisham’s bestsellers that have been turned into box office gold. Check out how many you have seen. "The Runaway Jury" on IMDB Trials are too important to be decided by juries. Wendell Rohr is a torts lawyer taking on the gun lobby. Rankin Fitch is the jury consultant for the Defendants and between them the battle is for the hearts and minds of the jury. But there is someone on the inside. Nicholas Easter is a juror with a girlfriend, Marlee, on the outside. They have a past … and their own agenda.

Based on the novel The Runaway Jury by John Grisham. "The Rainmaker" on IMDB They were totally unqualified to try the case of a lifetime … but every underdog has his day. Rudy Baylor is a jobless young attorney. However, he is also the only hope of an elderly couple whose insurance company will not pay for an operation that could save their son’s life. In this judicial drama, Rudy learns to hate corporate America as he falls in love with a battered young married woman. Will he be up to the task? Based on the novel The Rainmaker by John Grisham. "The Chamber" on IMDB Time is running out. Having survived the hatred and bigotry that was his Klansman grandfather’s only legacy, young attorney Adam Hall seeks at the last minute to appeal the old man’s death sentence for the murder of two small Jewish boys 30 years before. Only four weeks before Sam Cayhall is to be executed, Adam meets his grandfather for the first time in the Mississippi prison that has held him since the crime. The meeting is predictably tense when the educated, young Mr. Hall confronts his venom-spewing elder, Mr. Cayhall, about the murders. Will mercy soften Mr.

Cayhall’s heart? Based on the novel The Chamber by John Grisham. "A Time to Kill" on IMDB A lawyer and his assistant fighting to save a father on trial for murder. A time to question what they believe. A time to doubt what they trust. And no time for mistakes. Jake Tyler Brigance, a young and highly skilled attorney, is faced with the toughest case of his life, one that on many occasions may also threaten it. In the southern Mississippi town of Canton, the K.K.K. is active and the tension is high when the black majority is angered at the raping and slaying of a black man’s 10-year-old daughter. The distraught father takes revenge, gunning down the two criminals in the local courthouse. Brigance must decide, along with his new, eager assistant, whether he and his family can run the risk of defending the father. Based on the novel A Time to Kill by John Grisham. "The Pelican Brief" on IMDB Two Supreme Court Justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everybody else wants her dead.

Darby Shaw, a twenty-four-year-old law student, writes up an insightful theory about the recent murder of two Supreme Court justices, one of whom, Abraham Rosenberg (Hume Cronyn), served as her professor’s mentor. When her professor shares this so-called “Pelican Brief” with buddy Gavin Verheek, an FBI lawyer, the document makes its way to White House personnel, who believe it could topple the current administration. When Darby’s professor is murdered and the President convinces the FBI to hold off on investigating Darby’s theory, the resourceful student must go into hiding. Her only escape is working with an investigative reporter, Gray Grantham. Can they stay alive? Based on the novel The Pelican Brief by John Grisham. The Firm on IMDB Power can be murder to resist. Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in law. About to sit his bar exam, he is approached by the “Firm” and made an offer he doesn’t refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two associates are murdered.

The FBI contacts him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice – work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Based on the novel The Firm by John Grisham. And for your holiday viewing: Christmas With the Kranks on IMDB Their Christmas will turn the town upside down! Luther Krank is fed up with the commerciality of Christmas; he decides to skip the holiday and go on a vacation with his wife instead. But when his daughter decides at the last minute to come home, he must put together a holiday celebration where hilarity ensues. Based on the novel Skipping Christmas by John Grisham, just out in trade paperback! Here’s a complete list of John Grisham titles – see which have yet to make it to the big screen! Trivia Question: What movie, based on a New York Times Notable book, has its main character use a reference to John Grisham novels? Main character Nick Naylor, flack for the tobacco companies, played by Aaron Eckhart, explains what he does for a living as such : Few people on this planet know what it is to be truly despised. Can you blame them?

I earn a living fronting an organization that kills one thousand two hundred human beings a day; twelve hundred people. We're talking two jumbo jet plane loads of men, women, and children. I mean there's Attila, Genghis, and me, Nick Naylor, the face of cigarettes, the Colonel Sanders of nicotine. This is where I work, the Academy of Tobacco Studies. It was established by seven gentlemen you may recognize from C-Span. These guys realized quick if they were gonna claim cigarettes were not addictive they better have proof. This is the man they rely on, Erhardt Von Grupten Mundt. They found him in Germany. I won't go into the details. He's been testing the link between nicotine and lung cancer for thirty years, and hasn't found any conclusive results. The man's a genius; he could disprove gravity. Then we got our sharks. We draft them out of Ivy League law schools and give them timeshares and sports cars. It's just like a John Grisham novel. Well, you know, without all the espionage. Most importantly we got spin control. That's where I come in. I get paid to talk. I don't have an MD or law degree.

I have a baccalaureate in kicking ass and taking names. You know that guy who can pick up any girl? I'm him on crack. 7 Popular Movies of John Grisham Novels 7 Popular Movies of John Grisham Novels These are movies that have been made based on best-selling author John Grisham's novels. Warner Brothers Archive Buy from Amazon Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey and Kevin Spacey star in this film about a black man who killed the two white men who raped and tourtured his 10-year-old daughter. Also features Brenda Fricker, Oliver Platt, Charles S. Dutton, Ashley Judd, Patrick McGoohan, Chris Cooper, and Donald and Keifer Sutherland. Check Amazon rating » The Chamber. PriceGrabber A young lawyer attemps to save his estranged grandfather, an unrepentant members of the Klan, from the Mississippi gas chamber for a 1967 bombing that inadvertently killed two children. Stars Chris O'Donnell, Gene Hackman and Faye Dunaway. Check Amazon rating » The Client.

PriceGrabber Buy from Amazon An 11-year-old boy accidentally witnesses a suicide and finds himself chased by the mob for what they think he may have learned from the dying man. He turns to an unseasoned attorney to help protect his family. Stars Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones and newcomer Brad Renfro. Check Amazon rating » The Firm. PriceGrabber 4. The Firm Directed by Sydney Pollack, this film tells the story of a hotshot Harvard Law School graduate who finds himself working for a Memphis law firm with connections to the underworld that no one leaves alive. Stars Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Gene Hackman. The Pelican Brief. PriceGrabber Buy from Amazon Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington star in this thriller about a law student whose life is in danger when she discovers the truth behind the deaths of two Supreme Court justices. Directed by Alan J. Pakula, the film also features Sam Shepard , John Heard, James B. Sikking, Tony Goldwyn , Stanley Tucci, Hume Cronyn, John Lithgow, William Atherton, and Robert Culp. Check Amazon rating » The Rainmaker.

PriceGrabber Buy from Amazon Matt Damon portrays rookie lawyer Rudy Baylor who takes the case of boy who was denied life-saving treatment for leukemia by a powerful insurance company. Star-studded cast includes John Voight, Mary Kay Place, Danny DeVito, and Mickey Rourke . Check Amazon rating » Runaway Jury. PriceGrabber Buy from Amazon A jury expert for a big gun manufactuerer see his efforts to pick the perfect jury go awry when a mysterious caller begins to predict unusual behavior by the jury. Stars Gene Hackman , Dustin Hoffman , John Cusack and Rachel Weisz. Check Amazon rating » Novels To Films From One Of America’s Hottest Authors | Dora Games Article Blog Novels To Films From One Of America’s Hottest Authors Leave a reply The truth, John Grisham has been one of America’s most favorite authors since 1989. His writings have sold over 250 million copies worldwide. The majority of his books, in fact 17 all, are legal fiction however he has written four non-legal fiction works and one non-fiction story. Around this writing there have been ten films made from his books with one in the works.

His second novel, “The Firm”, was the first novel to be made into a film back in 1993. In this movie, starring Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Gene Hackman, a young Harvard Law School graduate begins working at a rather shady Memphis law firm. In that same year of 1993, a second John Grisham book to movie came out, “The Pelican Brief” starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington. In 1994, “The Client” was released. In this film a young boy accidentally witnesses a suicide and he is consequently chased by the mob for what they think the dying man may have told him. “The Client” starred Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones and the late Brad Renfro. The initial published and the one which many say is Grisham’s best story to date is “A Time to Kill”. This book was made into a film in 1996. The film introduced a new and upcoming actor in the main role, Matthew McConaughey, in addition starring Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Spacey.

Yet another movie from 1996 was “The Chamber” starring Chris O’Donnell, Gene Hackman and Faye Dunaway. Matt Damon took the lead role in “The Rainmaker” in 1997. He played a rookie lawyer who takes on a powerful insurance company on behalf of a boy denied medical treatment. In 1998, “The Gingerbread Man” starring Kenneth Branagh and Robert Downey, Jr. came out. This is the only Grisham movie that you will be unable to find as a book because it came from an unpublished manuscript. A couple of Grisham’s non-legal fiction writings have been made into films, “A Painted House” in 2003 and “Christmas with the Kranks”, starring Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis, that is based upon the story “Skipping Christmas”. “The Runaway Jury” starring Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman, John Cusack and Rachel Weisz was released in 2003. The next film is planned for release around 2012. It is “The Associate”, which was released as a novel in January 2009.

John Grisham has been just about the most popular and prolific authors in recent history, with 22 books and another being released in November 2009, 10 movies and another in 2012. If you missed these great movies now you can download them straight to your computer and watch right away on your computer, iPhone or TV.

Question: Which John Grisham novel was made into a film in 1993 starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington
Answer: The Pelican Brief